How about checks on politicians?

Many politicians are making hasty remarks regarding background checks, gun bans, and mental health checks for prospective gun owners. Gun sales are already subject to federal background checks and have been for quite some time.

Would politicians be willing to include themselves in all the background checks that they propose on gun owners? Would they be willing to have their legal and mental health background dug into by the FBI and disqualify anyone with a criminal or mental health history that would prevent gun ownership to also block them from holding elected office or be appointed to a cabinet or staff position of any elected politician at the local, state, or federal level?

Would they be willing to be blocked, on unpaid leave, from their elected office for the period in which a restraining order is in effect against them? Would they be willing to risk being barred from their office for life for a DUI conviction, as Massachusetts gun owners are with their license to carry?

I would think we would all want our elected officials to be of impeccable character and not have a criminal history or have mental health problems. Those that write the laws should also be the example to which all others would be held by the law. This is not a “Do as I say, not as I do” society.